A free AI story generator for short drama: you give it an idea, it writes the story the way a film needs it — a protagonist who wants something, a conflict, an ending — and from there it carries on to a script and a storyboard. Signing up includes 100 credits, once, with no card. That is a starting balance, not a free film: the video is bought with credits.
Free ToolsThe story comes back as a brief a director could work from: premise, genre and tone, a protagonist and what they want, the core conflict, how it ends, the pacing, the look, a hook for the first two seconds and the cliffhanger the ending leaves open.
Confirm the story and the agent writes the script from it, scene by scene, with the cast and the settings drawn up. Then the storyboard. You never copy the story into another tool, because the next stage reads it where it is.
Sign up and 100 credits land in your account, once. For a typical short story that carries the story, the script, the cast images and the storyboard. Video is the part that costs, at posted prices.
Signing up puts 100 credits in your account, once, with no card. For a typical short story that is enough to go from your idea to a storyboard — the story brief, the script, the cast images and the shot plan — or, if you would rather, about 16 images in the image studio. A longer script or a bigger cast can use it up first, and the video itself is bought with credits.
So the honest summary is: the story generator is free to try, the front half of a short drama is covered by the signup grant for a typical short story, and the video is not free. The cheapest clip in the roster costs 108 credits (Grok Imagine Video, 6 seconds), which is more than the grant, and a multi-shot piece runs into the thousands.
The grant is one-time. It is not a monthly allowance and it does not renew. When it runs out you buy credits when you need them — there is no mandatory subscription — and a longer script or a bigger cast can use the grant up before the storyboard, so a very large idea is better started as a short one.
Most AI story generators write prose: a few paragraphs of narration, a beginning, a middle and a tidy ending. That is the right output if you want something to read. It is the wrong input for a film, because a film is not narration. It is scenes, people who want things, and a decision about what the viewer sees in the first two seconds.
So the story here is written as a brief for a short drama, and each field is something the next stage uses. The premise and the genre set what kind of film it is. The protagonist and their goal give every scene a direction. The core conflict is what stands in the way. The ending intent says where it lands, and the cliffhanger says what question it leaves open. The hook is what the viewer sees or hears first, and the opening is written to open on it.
Pacing and visual style are in the brief too, because a script written for a slow, grey, still film is not the script of a fast, bright one. They carry through to the storyboard, so the frames look like the story you approved.
Each step ends where you can read what was made and change it before the next one spends anything.
An idea, a genre, a feeling, a situation — "two rivals share a lift for one night" is enough. What you do not decide, the agent decides, and it asks when it genuinely needs to know.
The story comes back as the brief described above. Change anything by typing: a different ending, a harder protagonist, a darker tone. Nothing downstream has been made yet.
The script has the characters, the settings and the scenes, in the format the later stages read. A story you changed in step two is the story the script is written from.
Each character is drawn as a character sheet, and the storyboard breaks the script into shots, one still per shot, with the same characters in every frame. This is the point where you see the film before paying for any motion.
Video is priced per second at the model's published rate, and the number is shown before you spend it. Stopping at the storyboard is a normal place to stop.
Seeds for the first line, not outputs. Each one has a person who wants something and a reason they cannot just have it, which is the part a story generator cannot supply if you leave it out.
| Genre | Idea | What it is really about |
|---|---|---|
| Romantic comedy | Two rivals are stuck in the same lift for one night | Admitting you were never competing |
| Thriller | A translator at a trial hears the defendant say something the court does not | Whether to be the only person who knows |
| Family drama | Three siblings have one weekend to decide what to do with their father's restaurant | Who gets to say what the family was |
| Sci-fi | A salvage pilot is offered a fortune for a ship that remembers her | What you owe the thing that kept you alive |
| Horror | A night cleaner finds one floor too many in an office tower | How much of a job you will do not to ask |
| Fantasy | A lighthouse keeper on a coast where the sea can speak | Whether being answered is the same as being heard |
| Mystery | A radio host reads a missing person's name every night, and one night someone calls | How long you can keep a promise nobody asked for |
These are our own examples, written for this page.
The first stages are the cheap ones. Cast images are priced per image, by model; the video that follows is priced per second.
| Stage | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Story, script and storyboard plan | Written by the agent; for a typical short story it fits in the signup grant together with the cast images |
| A character or storyboard image | GPT Image 2.5 6 credits, GPT Image 2 9 credits, GPT Image 2.6 Flare 25 credits, GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst 25 credits, Seedream 5.0 Pro 36 credits, Nano Banana Pro 40 credits |
| The cheapest video clip | 108 credits ($0.27) for 6 seconds on Grok Imagine Video |
| More credits | 4,000 credits for $10, 12,000 for $27, 40,000 for $80 |
List prices at the Starter plan rate, read from the same pricing the checkout charges.
Reelfo does not stamp a watermark on anything it renders. The compose step copies the video stream through untouched — there is no overlay filter in the pipeline to apply one.
A commercial licence comes with the Starter plan and above; the free signup grant is for personal and evaluation use. That is a licensing distinction, not a technical one — the files are identical.
Sign in and your first 100 credits are already there — no card needed.